„You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.“

„Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay“

—  Harlan Coben, libro Shelter

Fuente: Shelter

„If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.“

—  Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„Think highly of yourself, that's how you get to the top.“

—  Cornelius Keagon

„nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.“

—  Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936

Fuente: One

„You get tired of dealing with how other people think of what you're doing. It finally gets to the point where you realize that if you're going to do it the way you want, you have to do it yourself. That might mean putting up the money to do it yourself.“

—  Clare Fischer American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader 1928 - 2012

As quoted in "Voicing With a Heart"

„Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.“

—  Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011

„You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?“

—  James Van Der Beek actor 1977

CinemaSource: James Van Der Beek Interview: Dan Deevy, January 28, 2008

„And now I know it's hard when you don't know what to think

And every single smile is a foil and you're waking up

You might try but you won't get by until you're crucified for all the things you try to do

Well I don't care if you sink or swim

And I don't care how you hold it in

As long as you don't bother me with all the things I don't bother you with

And 9 times out of 10 you might be right

But what about that time you know you're wrong?

You sing that same song

And everybody smiles but they'll never get along“

—  Tomas Kalnoky American musician 1980

"We Are The Few" from "Everything Goes Numb" (2003) http://risc.perix.co.uk/lyrics/sm/egn/06/

„If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.“

—  Meg Rosoff, libro How I Live Now

Fuente: How I Live Now

„Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?“

—  Haruki Murakami Japanese author, novelist 1949

„You say you’re? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?“

—  Kazuo Ishiguro, libro Never Let Me Go

Fuente: Never Let Me Go

„When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.“

—  Tim Curry English actor, voice artist, comedian and singer 1946

Tim Curry Plunges Ahead Into the Past, Part IV http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/24/theater/tim-curry-plunges-ahead-into-the-past-part-iv.html (January 24, 1990)

„You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.“

—  Jodi Picoult Author 1966

Fuente: Vanishing Acts

„It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.“

—  Shunryu Suzuki Japanese Buddhist missionary 1904 - 1971

Express Yourself Fully (page 8)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)

„As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.“

—  Stephen Chbosky, libro The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Fuente: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

„You might have one thing in your head, but the things you’re doing don’t really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you’re young, you don’t want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.“

—  Chadwick Boseman American actor 1976 - 2020

„When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there… whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.“

—  Jennifer Weiner American writer 1970

„Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.“

—  Samuel Beckett Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906 - 1989

The Expelled (1946)